The Trip To Halawa Valley :: essays research papers

The Trip to Halawa Valley"The Trip to Halawa Valley," is a presently humbug written by Lynne SharonSchwartz. The bilgewater is about a son deliver the goods and getting married in Hawaii,and the reunification of his divorced p bents. The parents become the mainfocus of the story when the son suggests that they go on a voyage to Halawa Valley.In this story Schwartz is trying to show people that once you sterilize a termination it is rattling fractious to turn tooshie on that decision. With all the characters,except for the briefly mentioned newlyweds, Schwartz shows how decisions made bya mortal or a couple are hard to turn back on. An example of this is Paulsparents. Lois and Jim are brought back together in Hawaii, and try to rekindletheir love for each other. After their trip though, they realize it can non bedone, and part in their own separate ways.Schwartz does a very good job of showing the reader the experience she istrying to convey. She does this by usin g a couple different characters throughout the story. The main ones she uses are the parents, and that is thevery obvious example. A few other examples are non as clear, but they do showhow decisions are an important factor out in life and once made are very hard toturn around. Using Pauls brother Anthony, Schwartz shows that once he made thedecision to join the Hare Krishnas there was no turning back, even if that meantnot communicating with his parents anymore. Schwartz also uses Pauls otherbrother Eric. When Eric announced that he was gay, his parents had to sword thetough decision to either buy at or not support his choice in sexuality.     Schwartz develops the characters very fast, but in doing so makes thestory move faster. Throughout the story the characters are being developedthrough the thoughts of both Lois and Jim. They talk about their kids and howone of them died at age 11 due to a brain tumor. Schwartz also makes Loisdevelop Jim, and Jim develo p Lois. She does this by making them reminisce abouttheir past together.     The conflict in this short story is between the parents of Paul.